I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue with the Daz Subdragon and using SSS on the wings in Luxrender?

I am running:

Daz Studio 4.7.0.12 Pro 64bit

Reality 4.3.1.16203
CPU-No Acceleration

Luxrender 1.6.0 Build 16132

When rendering the Daz Subdragon with SSS on the wings, there are black holes in the mesh. These aren't reversed normals, as the wings render fine when SSS is unchecked. There are no alpha maps on the wings. The holes are also present if you use Glossy material and have the Transparency checked, but instead of a black hole it is a bright yellow hole.

I have rendered this scene with just IBL.

I have rendered this scene with just the Sun light.

I have rendered this scene with just a Mesh Light.

Hole is still present in all three situations.

Many thanks,

Dale

In other situations, however, I've found that I have to do some touchup afterwards. And that's where I've run into trouble in terms of symmetry.

Now I am aware that there is a symmetry option in the Node Weight Map Brush, and I turned it on while attempted to correct the weight maps. However, I've run into a problem. When I was trying to correct the weight map on the right thigh of an article of clothing, those corrections didn't appear on the left thigh. Now symmetry was on, and I've tested the various axises. Nothing. So how exactly do I get symmetry on opposite bones on a piece of clothing?

I've created several morphs (full body) for Genesis 3 but I've found some problems whenever I try to save them as a morph or zero the figures:

1. When I try to ZERO the figure pose the feet are always bent to about 60 degrees, the toes are bent upwards to about 9. I've found out that there's some hidden tiptoe morphs; I could see that morph in the hidden properties tab only so I zeroed it manually and afterwards - because the feet were bent upwards then - I'v zeroed the also. Found that the shins and some other body parts were bend/twisted also (e.g. 0,02 - although I didn't move them) and so I zeroed those also. BUT when I try to apply the zero pose again all body parts are posed again (also the tiptoe morph is active again) How can I clear the pose so it's a correct zero pose?

2. I've tried to export the complete G3 (low res/no subd) as a morphtarget and used the morph loader to apply it as a character morph. Seems to work fine but some add-ons like (e.g.) "Oh my lashes" won't accept that morph and their geometry is broken. That is because there are no ERC-parameters in the sub-components tab of the prop

3. So I've tried to save the (manually zeroed) character as a morph asset - but after that I couldn't figuer out how to find or use that morph? Is there a special location where I can dind ist? And if, how do I use it?

4. Saved the character as a character preset in DS. I can see that preset in the conntent library but when I try to load it or to apply it on a G3 it starts loading for a long time. 5 minutes. 10 minutes. 15 minutes. Nothing (DAZ ist still reading the file)

Any help would be appreciated.

I purchased this pose builder /converter bundle for Gen3 Daz 4.9.

https://www.daz3d.com/pose-builder-genesis-3-bundle

 I downloaded and installed it.  But where is it?  How does it work?  I don;t see any sign of it on my interface.   

What gives? :(

Is there the possibility of following an object in a rail (spline).
So when I want to move it can not get out of the way of the rail.
Attention, I do not speak of animation but of constraint of movement.

please note options like Geometries> Add smoothing Modifier are missing... I have tried deinstalling and reinstalling but to no avail... i get the feeling there is probably a file that saves your interface preferences in some way that needs to be deleted and reformed when restarting/ reinstalling Daz Studio...but hell if I know what it is... or how to restore to factory defaults

thank you

Thank you

I saved them as morph assets, but if I delete the .duf scene-subset file I saved and then reloaded to continue the process, I get an error.

I presume I have to save them as something else, so they end up in one of Daz's library folders, and it's so long since I did I can't remember; and i also don't remember having to do this when I created some morphs not long ago - just saving as morph assets was enough.

Edit:

Unless I am misremembering and it is just as Figure/Prop Asset as Well?

Is it somehow possible to rerender just a section of the image so I can edit it into the complete render?

Now my general question is What happened?  A week ago all my content was available.  As far as I can tell I'm fuly logged in, and DIM says I have 3,077 installed items.  So what gives?

Thanks

Dale

I bought rings and things: https://www.daz3d.com/rings-and-things-for-genesis-3-female-s

I can get them in the scene fine - but when I try to apply a material to them (silver or anything else) - nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

MacBook Pro Late 2008

As the (hopefully) attached picture shows, the viewport is not sizing to the screen. I can't get at some of the icons I need, and can't find how to resize the viewport. I'm sure that I'm missing something really simple, but it's really befuddling me.

Any suggestions as to what to do to properly size the viewport for my machine?

I would like to ask if anybody has a G2F model with additional bones for body fat animations and would be willing to share it.

Specifically, I would need a model with an additional bone for belly fat and 2 additional bones for the upper legs, I think that's where the most part of the fat exists.

I would like to animate the fat in a nice way, and having at least 3 additional bones for that would be necessary. I don't have any experience with adding bones and painting weights for it, so I thought I might just ask.

Here is a video of the animation that I would like to do with G2 and additional bones:

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According to the product page, this should have morphs that alter the size and shape of the hair style, but I can't find them under the Shaping tab, or any poses under the Posing tab.

Can anyone tell me where I should be looking?  Or if the product is incomplete maybe?

Basically I'd like to take a head and neck from a character and delete the rest of it

I take it that I :

 export it as eg an obj

then bring it back in to Daz Studio and

transfer the rigging and morphs back to this reduced OBJ from the original figure.

I used to do it in Poser but not sure how to do it in Studio.

thanks in advance :)

I save a properties preset and chose my respective nodes for the morph and the pose.

I open a new file and load the model, then merge file and choose my saved preset file.

The pose loads as expected, but the morph does not. 

Drilling down to my custom morph, I see it is not there.

I'm stumped. How do I load a custom morph dial reliably into a new scene?

specific example: OOT Open Toe Pumps for G3F on Victoria 7; the open toe portion is fine, but two toes stick out the inside of the shoe just behind the cut out toe of the shoe. 

I have tried the following:  turning off auto fit - shoes end up someplace other than the feet.  Increasing the number of fit iterations to a high number and waiting... zero change

changing V7 foot size. auto fit follows the change so the problem remains, with auto fit off - bye bye shoes.

With this type of shoe, turning off V7's toes won't work because you are supposed to see the toes in an open toe shoe! 

NOTE: the above is just ONE EXAMPLE of a problem I have with most shoes in my runtime, it is not OOT's fault.  It is some trick I don't understand how to accompllish.

thanks

Thanks

Thor3